Hey Ryan - which chipset/system were you using for capturing and writing the buffer to?

I was curious if you were running into DMI speed issues on z77 chipset? I'd be curious of the specs you were using for your system, but if you were using the bridge chipset for both capture and SATA writing, you might be near pegging out DMI 2.0 (20 gbps = 1.25 GB/sec.. or not much more than 2x your stream speeds).

The thunderbolt might 'fix' that because thunderbolt uses 4 cpu lanes directly (At least according to most diagrams I've seen for TB motherboards).

I'm not sure which slot your capture card is plugged into.. (CPU or chipset PCI- express), if it was plugged into the southbridge, you'd have 400mb+/sec across the DMI bus writing to ram, and then again back to the SATA ports..

Hey John, we were using an ASUS Z77 Sabertooth motherboard and plugging the Revo into one of the two primary PCIe slots. Not sure what "SATA writing" would have been approaching half of the 1.25 GB/s you mentioned though... And, even with a max write capability of 500 MB/s that is much less than half the total available bandwidth.

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